Now I’ve made Flash widgets before, but nothing like this Sprint Now Widget. The mother of them all.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:00 A.M. PTLearn how to apply the skills you already have to create rich, compelling content for print and online with Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium. In this session you’ll discover powerful new drawing, design, animation and 3D tools that will enable you to express yourself in exciting new ways and deliver rich, creative experiences across print, web and mobile media. Click here to join me.  It’s Free!  

So is the iPhone ever going to have the Flash Player on it?  That’s the big question.  I tend to think that Apple isn’t going to allow it because they have a history of not opening up their architecture.  Also, it might destroy their apps (Apple Store), since you can create it in Flash. But on the other hand, the next “iPhone Killer” could have it and Apple will wish it did. So Apple needs […]

Have you always wanted to create cool animations with Flash but haven’t had time to master a new piece of software? With Creative Suite 4, Flash Professional has incorporated major enhancements that make it easy for designers who are comfortable with Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign to transfer their skills and quickly create eye-catching animated elements to incorporate in your next digital project. And the best bit, you don’t need to learn to code! Here is […]

My latest lynda.com title is “Creating a First Web Site with Flash CS4 Professional” is now live! Check it out! Description: Information on how to learn Flash is prevalent, but it can be frustrating to understand how to make an entire working web site using this unique technology. Here’s a course that cuts through the clutter and offers practical tools for creating a dynamic web site, even for first-time developers. In Creating a First Web […]

The collaboration between print and online becomes more exciting every day.  MINI recently ran an augmented reality advertisement in some German publications such as Auto, Mortor und SPort and some others.  So if you have a magazine, just go to the website and hold the ad up to your webcam, and viola a 3D version of the MINI Cabrio appears on top of the ad!  Check out the YouTube video. Don’t have those German publications?  […]

So after the Adobe MAX Conference me and my wife flew directly to Thailand to see family and the area for Thanksgiving.  Luckily we got there when we did because protesters soon took over the airports after we arrived.  So in order to get out we had to drive to Cambodia and take a flight out from Siam Reap.  Home of Angkor Wat.  Which was perfect becuase I always wanted to go there.  Thanks protesters!  […]

Happy Holidays Everyone!  Props to Grant Skinner for providing the code.

This is a great extension for Firefox, allowing you to switch between different Flash player versions.  This is great considering the only other way to test Flash with different players is to uninstall your current Flash player and reinstall the one you want to test. This extension comes with all the currently published flash player plugins (from the version 2 to the most recent 9,0,16) and allows you to easily switch from one plugin to […]